Final Appeal for Donations to Support My Work on Guantánamo: $1900 Still Needed

19.9.14

Please support my work!

UPDATE September 23: My fundraising week is over, but I’m still hoping to raise $1650 of my $2500 target. If you can help out at all, it will be very much appreciated.

Dear friends and supporters,

Normal service will resume next week, but in the meantime I’m still focusing on securing a financial basis for my work on Guantánamo and related issues for the next three months, and putting out a last shout for donations.

I’m enormously grateful to the 12 friends and supporters who have donated $600 (£350) to support my work for the next three months, but I’m still a long way from my target of $2500 (£1500). If you can help me to raise the $1900 (£1150) I’m still looking for, I’ll be very grateful.

As I have explained earlier in this fundraising week, the majority of my work is unpaid — or, rather, is reader-supported — so most of my articles, as well as the maintenance of this website and the social media associated with it, and most of my media appearances, are only possible with your support. If you can help out at all, please click on the “Donate” button above to donate via PayPal (and I should add that you don’t need to be a PayPal member to use PayPal).

All contributions to support my work are welcome, whether it’s $25, $100 or $500 — or, of course, the equivalent in pounds sterling or any other currency. You can also make a recurring payment on a monthly basis by ticking the box marked, “Make This Recurring (Monthly),” and if you are able to do so, it would be very much appreciated.

Readers can pay via PayPal from anywhere in the world, but if you’re in the UK and want to help without using PayPal, you can send me a cheque (address here — scroll down to the bottom of the page), and if you’re not a PayPal user and want to send a check from the US (or from anywhere else in the world, for that matter), please feel free to do so, but bear in mind that I have to pay a $10/£6.50 processing fee on every transaction. Securely packaged cash is also an option!

Next week I’ll be looking for new angles to take to put pressure on the Obama administration and Congress to address the ongoing horrors of Guantánamo — a place where 149 men are still held, and where over half of those men (79 in total) are still held despite having been approved for release by government task forces and review boards. In addition, lest we forget, a number of hunger-striking prisoners are still being force-fed, a horribly abusive process that has no place in a civilized society, and the very nature of Guantánamo — a place where those held still cannot receive family visits, and have reason to fear that they will never leave Guantánamo alive — ought to be a persistent source of shame to all decent people.

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Investigative journalist, author, campaigner, commentator and public speaker. Recognized as an authority on Guantánamo and the “war on terror.” Co-founder, Close Guantánamo, co-director, We Stand With Shaker. Also, singer and songwriter (The Four Fathers) and photographer. Email Andy Worthington